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post #4771 of 4982
7/27/09 at 2:40pm
Mike, did I make you lose your lunch in the "Blondes" thread today? 
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post #4772 of 4982
7/27/09 at 7:38pm
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That WAS pretty severe.  I know she has a proclivity for working out and staying in shape.  That's fine...even if it takes away some of the "curves" she had early in her career.  But that picture was...difficult.  I'm not sure how else to explain it.
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post #4773 of 4982
7/28/09 at 11:23am

Once again some people fought the wilderness and the wilderness won.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/847790.html
 

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The Washington woman who was thrown from the raft and died in a Class V (advanced expert) section of the North Fork was one of two fatalities that day. A Utah man died on a Class II (moderately easy) section of the South Fork of the Payette River.



The Payette can be mighty unforgiving - it ain't the Hudson.  The North Fork drops 2,000 feet in the 25 mile stretch from Cascade to Banks.  For comparison, the Mississippi only drops 830 feet from Minneapolis to the Gulf, a distance of around 1,200 miles.


Edited by Dennis Nicholls - 7/28/2009 at 06:57 pm GMT
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post #4774 of 4982
7/28/09 at 9:45pm
Well I almost fought the wilderness myself this evening.  Driving around at dusk in the Miata, I almost ran over Wylie Coyote who for some reason ran across the road right in front of me.  Missed him by a close margin.

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post #4775 of 4982
7/28/09 at 10:42pm
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Good thing you missed him or you might have gotten a real charge out of it! 
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post #4776 of 4982
7/30/09 at 8:28am
Especially in the Miata it's much better to hit a coyote than a deer. 

A previous evening's drive had me see three deer:  one in a field munching the farmer's veggies, one bounding across the road but at a safe distance, and one lying dead by the side of the road.
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post #4777 of 4982
7/30/09 at 8:37am
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I was thinking more about that big firecracker strapped to W.E.C.'s underbelly.
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post #4778 of 4982
7/30/09 at 9:21am
Surprisingly there's lots of deer strike action in NY.  I found this article searching this morning.

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This year's [2008] analysis revealed:
    --  Overall deer claim frequency has gone down over the past 10 years.
    --  In fact, 2007 had the second lowest number of deer claims since 1998.
    --  Deer claim frequency is highest in West Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Last year, the frequency of New York deer claims rose. If you live in one of
the following counties, you're more than twice as likely to collide with a
deer than in other parts of the state:
    --  Wyoming
    --  Allegany
    --  Yates
    --  Chenango
    --  Lewis
    --  Sullivan

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post #4779 of 4982
7/30/09 at 9:39am
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I'm not sure why you are surprised by a high # of deer/car collisions in NY.  We have more whitetail deer here than we know what to do with.  I regularly have a few in my backyard...and I live in a small city in Rensselaer County.  In fact, I'm a little surprised Rensselaer County is not on that list.

I lived in Sullivan County for six years.  the numbers of deer there are amazing.  Deer population estimates are probably available from the NYS DEC. 

I am giving you the benefit that you are not one of those folks under the assumption that NYS consists mostly of New York City. 

While 19.5 million people live in New York State, 8.3 million of them live in New York City (a section of the below map so small it cannot be clearly made out).  Think of those 8.3 million living on that black dot with a square around it just to the left of the thick black text "New York."

If you expand the Metropolitan NYC area to include Long Island and suburban Westchester & Rockland counties, you will find that 12.4 million people live in that small fraction of downstate NY...leaving only 7.5 million New Yorkers living in the rest of the state (from about where it says 'Middletown" and on up--that is, most of what you see!)  NYS consists of nearly 55k square miles.  We are joined there by a ton of whitetail deer.

New York's #1 industry is agriculture (among the top 5 ag. states in the US).


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post #4780 of 4982
7/30/09 at 12:38pm
I'm just thinking that so many people have lived there for centuries.  One would think the wildlife would have thinned out considerably by now.  I'm sure your population of elk, moose, bear, and cougar are much lower than in, say, 1700.  Maybe I should think of deer as rather large rodents.



East coast states would have their borders re-worked under the "King Dennis" plan.  NY would become an urban strip from Newark through New Haven.  Upstate NY would be another state.  Eastern CT would merge with RI.

How come NY state lost the territory of present day VT and yet couldn't give NYC the boot? 
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post #4781 of 4982
7/30/09 at 1:16pm
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But that's my point.  Upstate NY is NOT that congested.  There are a few urban areas (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Albany--from West to East on NYS Thruway) but most of the rest is completely rural. 

Take a look at Hamilton County...that HUGE county just NW of Albany county.  The largest county geographically in NY (I think, with 1720 square miles of land) yet it only has 5400 people. 


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post #4782 of 4982
7/30/09 at 1:18pm
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We have no elk.  Some black bear and an occasional moose. 

There are still a few cats which populate the Adirondacks and Catskills--but not many.

Many do think of the deer as rather large pests. 
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post #4783 of 4982
7/30/09 at 1:30pm
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Hamilton County:  1800 square miles & 5400 people (3 people per sq/mi).

New York County (Manhattan):  23 square miles & 1.6 million people (71,000 people per sq/mi).


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post #4784 of 4982
7/30/09 at 3:49pm
71,000 people per square mile.    People weren't made to live like that.  Manhattan has a slightly larger population than the entire state of Idaho.

Hamilton County is completely enclosed within Adirondack Park, along with about 5 other counties.  How come there's no Burr County? 

How about Owyhee County ID?  7679 square miles and 10,644 people for a density of 1.38 people per square mile.  

From the point of view of many people, especially in the west, 7.5 million people is a big population.  It's equal to the combined populations of Washington State (6 million) plus Idaho (1.5 million).  This may color our judgement and make us think upstate NY is densely populated.

My remembrances of upstate NY are somewhat lost in  the mists of time.  My dad had a 1 year TDY in 1959 at Bell Labs near Newark, and we lived in one of those ugly brick high-rise complexes across the street from Seaton Hall U.  Weekends were spent driving all over the place.  I remember Ausable Chasm and Fort Ticonderoga.  I felt gyped by Thousand Islands because even I could see there weren't anywhere near 1,000 of them.  Of course West Point.  Any place with cannons I remember much better. 
 


Edited by Dennis Nicholls - 7/30/2009 at 11:28 pm GMT
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post #4785 of 4982
7/30/09 at 7:48pm
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Originally Posted by Dennis Nicholls View Post

Hamilton County is completely enclosed within Adirondack Park, along with about 5 other counties.  How come there's no Burr County? 
 

Hamilton County is named after Alexander Hamilton, the only member of the New York State delegation who signed the United States Constitution in 1787 and later the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.

Burr was from New Jersey. 

There's only two counties (Hamilton & Essex) completely within the ADK Park boundaries.  The others are partials.


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post #4786 of 4982
7/30/09 at 8:57pm
But didn't Aaron Burr SHOOT Alexander Hamilton?    Burr was a US Senator from NY prior to becoming VP.  I wonder....did Hillary Clinton take the US Senate seat previously occupied by Aaron Burr? 

Nobody likes my jokes. 
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post #4787 of 4982
7/30/09 at 9:50pm
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Originally Posted by Dennis Nicholls View Post

But didn't Aaron Burr SHOOT Alexander Hamilton?    Burr was a US Senator from NY prior to becoming VP.  I wonder....did Hillary Clinton take the US Senate seat previously occupied by Aaron Burr? 
 

We've never forgiven him that.  Why reward him by naming a county "Burr?"

That US Senate seat was taken from Philip Schuyler--a member of the beloved Schuyler family here in NY. 

Burr also served in the NYS Assembly--where I work.  Although I hadn't been hired quite yet, it just seems so.  

Re: the lineage of the Clinton Senate seat, I saw a really cool graph in the paper (unfortunately can't remember which one--maybe NYT) which showed the lineage of each of the Supreme Court seats.  VERY interesting.  Here's a text-only version from Wikipedia.

====================

This still isn't the one I saw...but it's REALLY cool! 


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post #4788 of 4982
7/31/09 at 1:23am
There's a story in The Brethren where Harry Blackmun first shows up at the Supreme Court and finds a small pocket edition of the Constitution in his desk drawer with the name Felix Frankfurter written on it.

My con law casebook from law school has an appendix of a historic time line of the seats in the Supreme Court.  Sometimes it's necessary to go back and count heads on close decisions.  Cynically the Justices are labled with a "-D" or a "-R" in the table.

Other than the US Senate, you can't do this so easily with most legislative bodies due to reapportionment.

With all its other problems, California is probably going to lose a House seat after the upcoming census.
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post #4789 of 4982
7/31/09 at 2:43am
Speaking of being cynical.. wasn't the whole top administrative layer of Albany just arrested for all sorts of fraud, extortion and taking bribes? Or was that New Jersey (Hoboken - isn't that where Frank Sinatra was born?)?

And if it was Albany, why are you still walking around free Mike? You're in an impressive government building as well!


 



Cees
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post #4790 of 4982
7/31/09 at 2:58am
Cees,

You are still around!

Any comments on my heavy duty drugs in post 4719?
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post #4791 of 4982
7/31/09 at 3:34am

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Prednisone  60 mg daily initially
Avelox 400 mg daily
Astepro (nasal spray)
Omnaris (nasal spray)

Dennis:

That is quite a load. Is this something that you have a chronic condition of? Seasonal?

I do know that it takes quite a while to get antibiotics into the sinus cavity because it is well protected.

A good friend of mine that is retired ENT years ago told me about a combination of sodium chloride and sodium bicarb that you mix in water and use as a nasal irrigation. It sounds gross but it works. I have three good friends that have had chronic and seasonal sinusitis and allergies for years. After I recommend that they try the irrigation they have all stopped taking their nasal sprays, anti-histamines and other types of meds like steroids for several years now.

After you clear your sinus I would pick up some something like Neil Med's Sinus Rinse which can be picked up at any Walgreens, Wal-Mart, etc.

Good luck.



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post #4792 of 4982
7/31/09 at 3:47am
Actually, I'm just back after a few days in the country, but before that I certainly missed that post completely.

My sincere apologies!

Well, I have little to add to Parker's reaction. It's heavy indeed and if your doctor prescibes it (and is still standing by your continued using it), what would I say?

Antibiotics have to be taken "all the way": until the prescribed dose is completely finished. Prednisone isn't something I would love to take any longer than necessary and prescribed, although on the other hand it's not extremely dangerous.

Parker's salt solution happens to be something I did once a long time ago. It's tough and costed me more tears, if I remember well, than I could drink back in a quarter of an hour. 
(But although I never repeated it, it did the job.)


Cees
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post #4793 of 4982
7/31/09 at 5:46am
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Originally Posted by Cees Alons View Post

Speaking of being cynical.. wasn't the whole top administrative layer of Albany just arrested for all sorts of fraud, extortion and taking bribes? Or was that New Jersey (Hoboken - isn't that where Frank Sinatra was born?)?

And if it was Albany, why are you still walking around free Mike? You're in an impressive government building as well!


 
 

That was Jersey, Cees.  Not to say that Albany lawmakers don't have problems of their own. 

Excuse me.  Someone's knocking on my door... 

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post #4794 of 4982
7/31/09 at 6:21am
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Don't know if either of you fellas are into music downloads...

but this is a pretty good deal, it seems (today only).

99 Most Essential Bach Masterpieces for just $2.99 from amazon.com.
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post #4795 of 4982
7/31/09 at 8:53am
Well the drugs did the trick.  The antibiotic was a full course for 20 days.  The prednisone was quickly tapered off: 60 mg for 3 days, 40 mg for 3 days, 20 mg for 3 days, 10 mg for 4 days, then stop.  My ENT guy told me this was a serious therapy.  The alternative was sinus surgery: sinuplasty where they stick a balloon up your nose.

Maybe I've had a chronic problem but it really got bad this spring.  I've had terrible insomnia until I saw the ENT guy.  My regular doc had me do the fingertip-sensor test for sleep apnea but that was negative (probably what we lawyers call "defensive medicine").  A CT scan showed terrible blockage so he sent me over to the ENT guy.

I've used regular saline solution (NaCl) as an irrigant before as a home-remedy.  I've got this giant 40 cc syringe my vet once gave me for force-feeding a sick kitty, and it does a number shooting warm saline solution up your nose. 

In general any seasonal allergies dropped off moving to Boise and its high-desert climate.


Edited by Dennis Nicholls - 7/31/2009 at 04:03 pm GMT
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post #4796 of 4982
8/2/09 at 12:02pm
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post #4797 of 4982
8/2/09 at 12:09pm


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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon View Post

Don't know if either of you fellas are into music downloads...

but this is a pretty good deal, it seems (today only).

99 Most Essential Bach Masterpieces for just $2.99 from amazon.com.
 

For the record: I already bought the "Complete Bach Works" some time ago (for a fair price but substantially more than this) and I'm not really into downloads, but that is a very neat offer for that price.


Great to hear it helped you, Dennis (and that is was a temporary course anyway).


Cees
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post #4798 of 4982
8/2/09 at 2:49pm
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I actually went ahead and downloaded the 99 Bach pieces.  I figured they would be a nice addition to the iPod playlists for my numerous visits to the gym.  Nothing should propel me to go a few extra miles on the treadmill than the Toccata & Fugue in D Minor!    I figured for $2.99 I couldn't go wrong for the convenience.  The Segovia pieces are rather unremarkable in quality, I don't like the instrument used by Daniel Benn on the Goldberg & Well-Tempered pieces (sounds rather "electronic"), but many of the orchestral and chorale pieces sound quite nice. 

I purchased the complete Mozart & Beethoven boxes when they went on terrific sales on Amazon a few years ago.  I haven't seen that kind of sale yet on the Bach box. 
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post #4799 of 4982
8/2/09 at 3:01pm
Congrats. For that price it doesn't hurt even if one or two aren't the very best.

The Bach sets were offered hose two. But perhaps only on Amazon/DE.
In fact they were the first I saw of the kind.

It's funny, they still have it, but listed twice: one for € 79.95, the other € 142.99.
(Yet they look exactly the same.)


Cees
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post #4800 of 4982
8/2/09 at 3:05pm
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Originally Posted by Cees Alons View Post

The Bach sets were offered hose two. But perhaps only on Amazon/DE.
In fact they were the first I saw of the kind.

It's funny, they still have it, but listed twice: one for € 79.95, the other € 142.99.
(Yet they look exactly the same.)
 

And listed for $83.99 on amazon (US).

Cees:  Where on your keyboard is the "Euro" symbol located?  The dollar sign is above the #4 here. 

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